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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

WIŚNIEWSKI

forename(s)

John (pl. Jan)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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diocese / province

Culm (Chełmno) diocesemore on
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[access: 2012.11.23]

honorary titles

Papal chamberlainmore on
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[access: 2014.11.22]

Gold „Cross of Merit”more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

date and place
of death

20.10.1939

Tczewtoday: Tczew urban gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]

alt. dates and places
of death

21.10.1939

details of death

During World War I drafted in 1915, as a seminarian, into German army. Served as a nurse. Decommissioned in c. 1919.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, called in by the Germans for a meeting on 20.10.1939 at the Theological Seminary building in Pelplin.

After arrival arrested together with 18 other Pelplin canons.

Marched off from the city and rushed to Tczew.

There in the former military barracks tortured and murdered during the night together with 15 other Pelplin canons.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

07.02.1891

Toruńtoday: Toruń city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

10.07.1921 (St Barbara Theological Seminary chapel in Pelplin)

positions held

1924 – 1939

professor — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ Theological Seminary — lecturer in the history, theory and practice of music and church singing

1924 – 1939

teacher — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ musicology, Collegium Marianum

1924 – 1939

conductor — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.06]
⋄ cathedral choir and Seminar orchestra ⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC cathedral church

1924 – 1939

professor — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ Bishop's Organist School — also: director (1933‑1939)

till 1939

membership — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ Diocesan Commission for Organist Exams

till 1939

inspector — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ Diocesan Commission for Parish Organists

from 1924

vicar — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC cathedral church

1921 – 1924

student — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ [State Conservatory of Music (from 1922) / State Academy and School of Music (1920‑1922)] — also: student of the Department of Musicology at the University of Poland (from 1922)

1921

vicar — Łążyntoday: Zławieś Wielka gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.02.24]
⋄ St Valentine Priest and Martyr RC parish

1919 – 1921

student — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

c. 1914 – 1919

soldier — German Imperial Army

1913 – 1915

student — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary — after the outbreak of World War I studies interrupted by draft into the Imperial German Army

author of, among others „Church songbook for the Chełmno diocese intended especially for school youth” (Pelplin, 1928), „Church songbook for general use with notes” (Pelplin, 1932), „Church songbook for 1 voice with organ accompaniment” (Pelplin, 1933), „On Conducting” (Pelplin, 1933), „Outline Handbook of Church Music” (Pelplin, 1934); also: author of many articles on sacred music

virtuoso of organ playing, composer of, among others, cantatas „Begin with our lips to praise the Holy Virgin” for soprano and tenor, choir and orchestra, „Ecce sacerdo magnus” for choir with organ, „Jubilate Deo” — 15 songs and motets for four–voice male choir a cappella, „Masses on the theme: Who will entrust himself”, „Papal Hymn” for 2 equal voices with piano accompaniment, „Eucharistic Hymn O admirabilie commercium

others related
in death

BARTKOWSKIClick to display biography Julius, BISTRAMClick to display biography John, DZIARNOWSKIClick to display biography Augustine Charles, GRAJEWSKIClick to display biography Joseph, JANKOWSKIClick to display biography John, KIRSTEINClick to display biography Paul, KUROWSKIClick to display biography Paul, LEWANDOWSKIClick to display biography Louis, PARTYKAClick to display biography Boleslav, RASZEJAClick to display biography Maximilian, ROSKWITALSKIClick to display biography Joseph, RÓŻYŃSKIClick to display biography Francis, SCHÜTTClick to display biography Walter, SIELSKIClick to display biography Julius Vaclav, ZAREMBAClick to display biography John

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

Tczew (murder of priests): On 20.10.1939 Germans in Pelplin and vicinity arrested c. 21 Catholic priests. The group was driven to a nearby Belawski forest where they were forced to dig a large ditch. For some reason (possibly for place was open to local inhabitants) the group was forced to march back to Pelplin, being publicly maltreated and tortured on the way, towards train station. There they were put on lorries and taken to IL Dirschau camp in Tczew. In the evening after torture 16 of them were executed in the Tczew military barracks, at the place traditionally known as Old Powder Site — by the shots to the back of the head (Germ. „Genickschuss”). Some of them were prob. buried in a mass grave alive. The crime was committed by a specially brought SA commando from Gdańsk, i.e. Germ. Die Sturmabteilungen der NSDAP (Eng. NSDAP Storm Troops) — security militias of the National Socialist German Workers' Party NSDAP — under the command of a certain Walter Frösse. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, zbrodniapomorska1939.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.12.09]
)

IL Dirschau: Germ. Internierungslager (Eng. Internment camp) set up by the Germans on 10.09.1939 in Tczew for inhabitants of Tczew county. Organised at former Polish army barracks and from end of 11.1939 in the Artisans’ school building. Altogether c. 1,000‑1,500 people where incarcerated and repeatedly tortured. 120‑150 were murdered in the barracks including 16 priests from Pelplin. Some were mass murdered in Szpęgawsk forest, others were transferred to KL Stutthof concentration camp. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

«Intelligenzaktion»: (Eng. „Action Intelligentsia”) — extermination program of Polish elites, mainly intelligentsia, executed by the Germans right from the start of the occupation in 09.1939 till around 05.1940, mainly on the lands directly incorporated into Germany but also in the so‑called General Governorate where it was called «AB‑aktion». During the first phase right after start of German occupation of Poland implemented as Germ. Unternehmen „Tannenberg” (Eng. „Tannenberg operation”) — plan based on proscription lists of Poles worked out by (Germ. Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen), regarded by Germans as specially dangerous to the German Reich. List contained names of c. 61,000 Poles. Altogether during this genocide Germans methodically murdered c. 50,000 teachers, priests, landowners, social and political activists and retired military. Further 50,000 were sent to concentration camps where most of them perished. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.04]
)

Ribbentrop-Molotov: Genocidal Russian–German alliance pact between Russian leader Joseph Stalin and German leader Adolf Hitler signed on 23.08.1939 in Moscow by respective foreign ministers, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany. The pact sanctioned and was the direct cause of joint Russian and German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939. In a political sense, the pact was an attempt to restore the status quo ante before 1914, with one exception, namely the „commercial” exchange of the so–called „Kingdom of Poland”, which in 1914 was part of the Russian Empire, fore Eastern Galicia (today's western Ukraine), in 1914 belonging to the Austro–Hungarian Empire. Galicia, including Lviv, was to be taken over by the Russians, the „Kingdom of Poland” — under the name of the General Governorate — Germany. The resultant „war was one of the greatest calamities and dramas of humanity in history, for two atheistic and anti–Christian ideologies — national and international socialism — rejected God and His fifth Decalogue commandment: Thou shall not kill!” (Abp Stanislaus Gądecki, 01.09.2019). The decisions taken — backed up by the betrayal of the formal allies of Poland, France and Germany, which on 12.09.1939, at a joint conference in Abbeville, decided not to provide aid to attacked Poland and not to take military action against Germany (a clear breach of treaty obligations with Poland) — were on 28.09.1939 slightly altered and made more precise when a treaty on „German–Russian boundaries and friendship” was agreed by the same murderous signatories. One of its findings was establishment of spheres of influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in consequence IV partition of Poland. In one of its secret annexes agreed, that: „the Signatories will not tolerate on its respective territories any Polish propaganda that affects the territory of the other Side. On their respective territories they will suppress all such propaganda and inform each other of the measures taken to accomplish it”. The agreements resulted in a series of meeting between two genocidal organization representing both sides — German Gestapo and Russian NKVD when coordination of efforts to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and Polish leading classes (in Germany called «Intelligenzaktion», in Russia took the form of Katyń massacres) where discussed. Resulted in deaths of hundreds of thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including thousands of priests presented here, and tens of millions of ordinary people,. The results of this Russian–German pact lasted till 1989 and are still in evidence even today. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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)

Pius XI's encyclicals: Facing the creation of two totalitarian systems in Europe, which seemed to compete with each other, though there were more similarities than contradictions between them, Pope Pius XI issued in 03.1937 (within 5 days) two encyclicals. In the „Mit brennender Sorge” (Eng. „With Burning Concern”) published on 14.03.1938, condemned the national socialism prevailing in Germany. The Pope wrote: „Whoever, following the old Germanic–pre–Christian beliefs, puts various impersonal fate in the place of a personal God, denies the wisdom of God and Providence […], whoever exalts earthly values: race or nation, or state, or state system, representatives of state power or other fundamental values of human society, […] and makes them the highest standard of all values, including religious ones, and idolizes them, this one […] is far from true faith in God and from a worldview corresponding to such faith”. On 19.03.1937, published „Divini Redemptoris” (Eng. „Divine Redeemer”), in which criticized Russian communism, dialectical materialism and the class struggle theory. The Pope wrote: „Communism deprives man of freedom, and therefore the spiritual basis of all life norms. It deprives the human person of all his dignity and any moral support with which he could resist the onslaught of blind passions […] This is the new gospel that Bolshevik and godless communism preaches as a message of salvation and redemption of humanity”… Pius XI demanded that the established human law be subjected to the natural law of God , recommended the implementation of the ideal of a Christian state and society, and called on Catholics to resist. Two years later, National Socialist Germany and Communist Russia came together and started World War II. (more on: www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
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[access: 2023.05.28]
)

sources

personal:
www.zkp.tczew.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, www.niedziela.diecezja.torun.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]

bibliographical:
Martyrology of the Polish Roman Catholic clergy under nazi occupation in 1939‑1945”, Victor Jacewicz, John Woś, vol. I‑V, Warsaw Theological Academy, 1977‑1981
Biographical dictionary of priests ordained in the years 1921‑1945 working in the Chełmno diocese”, Fr Anastasius Nadolny, prof., Bernardinum publishing house 2021
original images:
pliki.divart.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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